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“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” –James Madison
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Red October Looms for ObamaCare
Americans can breathe a sigh of relief, however briefly, because Congress will not pass health care legislation before lawmakers depart for recess on August 7. “This bill, even in the best-case scenario, will not be signed — we won’t even vote on it probably until the end of September or the middle of October,” said President Barack Obama.
In a sense, Obama is admitting the unpopularity of the major proposals being bantered about in Congress. “This has been the most difficult test for me so far in public life,” he complained, “trying to describe in clear, simple terms how important it is that we reform this system. The case is so clear to me.” And the case is equally clear to us that Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are acting unconstitutionally. Look it up — health care ain’t there. Economist Walter E. Williams points to the Founders’ own words on the lack of constitutional authority for such actions, adding, “What we’re witnessing today is nothing less than a massive escalation in White House and congressional thuggery.”
In the most recent example of a travesty of justice to come from the White House, the No. 3 official at the Obama Justice Department, Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli has called a halt to a civil complaint lodged against three members of The New Black Panther Party.
These three individuals had been accused of voter intimidation at a Philadelphia polling place during last November’s election.
The image shown here is a single enriched pellet used in a nuclear electrical power generator.
Uranium is a naturally existing material in the Earth, and deposits are vast, with further deposits being discovered on a regular basis.
The ore is mined, and the Uranium separated from that. This is called Yellowcake, and naturally existing Uranium is already in a partially enriched state, at around 0.7%. So, even while still in the ground it is partially enriched.
150 thousand tons of rock and ore will yield around 200 tons of the Uranium.
From this first stage, that of separation, it then undergoes further enrichment.
The process to enrich it to a level where it can be used for fuel in Nuclear power plants entails 5 separate steps, and at the end of those 5 steps, it is enriched to around 3 to 5%, and most typically just that 3%.
The process for enrichment to weapons grade Uranium is a completely different series of processes altogether, so if the process is to manufacture Nuclear power plant fuel, it’s not just a matter of ‘holding down the button’ so to speak and just keeping on enriching it, perhaps until it reaches weapons grade enrichment. At the end of the 5 processes for manufacturing Nuclear power plant fuel that is the absolute maximum that it can be enriched, that being the 3 to 5%.
During those processes for nuclear power plant fuel, the Uranium is converted to a powder which is then pressed into pellet form. Those pellets are then fired in a high temperature furnace to create those hard ceramic pellets. The pellets are then machined into specific sizes and a single pellet is what you see above. Read the rest of this entry »
Despite the apprehension I’m feeling about tonight, I’m ready for “beer night” with my pal, Henry “Skip” Gates, Jr., and his oppressor Sgt. James Crowley. I have a great selection of drinks and snacks ready for my guests: Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Hamm’s and Pabst Blue Ribbon, peanuts, pretzels, doughnuts, Slim Jims, and pork rinds.
Oh, and for Skip and me there’s champagne and sparkling water, with a fresh assortment of fruit, crudités and a cheesecake sampler platter. You don’t expect us to imbibe in the swill I’m providing for Crowley, do you?
Honestly, I cannot understand what all the hooh hah is about. Although I’m the president, first and foremost I’m a community organizer. I agitate. That’s what community organizers do. If he were alive today, Saul Alinsky would be proud of me. I was also a member of Rev. Wright’s congregation for 20 years, and have made my views on typical white people (even dear old Granny) known on a number of occasions – even in my book. Did no one pay attention to my past during the campaign? If they had, I probably wouldn’t be where I am today. Thanks, mainstream media!
But my poll numbers are way down, and so I have to fall back on the fallacy that helped me get elected – that of the “post-racial” president. Oh, and continuing to blame Bush for all of my woes can’t hurt either, can it? Read the rest of this entry »
“House Science and Technology Committee yesterday approved legislation to establish a social and behavioral sciences research program at the Energy Department.
The Science Committee also approved three bills to focus DOE research on energy efficiency and advanced energy technologies through programs in advanced vehicle technologies, wind energy and natural gas turbines.
Rep. Brian Baird’s (D-Wash.) H.R. 3247, would authorize $10 million annually over six years to better understand why people make certain decisions about energy technologies in an effort to spur greater market adoption, he said.”
We don’t need to spend $10 million to understand why people make the energy decisions that they do. That is simple. Free people are rational and they want reliable energy at an affordable price.
What requires studying (and we might even support this as a federal expenditure) is why politicians are so keen to force expensive, unproven energy technologies – making Americans pay doubly – for more energy subsidies and for pricier electricity. Read the rest of this entry »
You’d hesitate to send in even a negotiator from the local council for something so trivial, yet Barack brought even his vice president for support:
President Barack Obama is hailing his meeting with professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and policeman James Crowley as a “friendly, thoughtful conversation.”
In a statement after the three men and Vice President Joe Biden chatted over beers, Obama said he learned that Gates and Crowley had already spent some time talking with each other. He called that “a testament to them
When Obama must get involved so intensely in a stupid argument like this, how on earth will he go in a war?
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer recently told reporters that a public option for government funded abortions would be part of the final health care reform package.
Not all Democrats, however are washing down their cookies with Kool-Aid.
Nineteen ”Blue Dog” Democrats warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that they would not vote for any health care reform bill that either mandates government coverage for abortion or allows the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to recommend abortion services be included under covered benefits or as part of a benefits package.
The provisions that the more liberal members of Congress are advocating would cause taxpayers to be forced to pay for abortions for the first time in over thirty years.
For a few years after the passage of Roe v Wade, low income women were able to use Medicare funds to pay for abortions.
This practice came to a halt in 1976 when Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, putting an end to this practice.
In 1980, a case came before the Supreme Court challenging the Hyde Amendment, and it was upheld by the court, whose statement declared that a distinction could be made between abortion and “other medical procedures, because no other procedure…Read the rest of this entry
When the Nuclear process for the generation of electrical power is talked about, it suffers from misconceptions, and they all stem from that one word ….. Nuclear.
In the main people will tend to believe the worst things rather than actually find out about it for themselves, and because the loudest voices are from those environmentalists who, to further their own agenda, spread those worst possible scenarios, then that is what gains the most traction. Because of that the scare campaign that surround the word Nuclear, then those misconceptions are enhanced.
Consider this.
Nearly every hospital uses nuclear material in every day operations. Somehow, that is okay, and yet using that same material in a similar, and yet different process to generate electricity is somehow more inherently dangerous, and by extrapolation more worthy of banner headlines, while the nuclear medicine processes are somehow totally ignored, as if they are okay, while Nuclear power is not. That is the incongruous situation that faces those who rationally try and explain that both processes are as inherently safe as each other.
Whole geographical areas have gone to great public lengths to declare themselves nuclear free zones, and yet hospitals in those areas still operate as they always have, giving the impression that somehow, there is good Nuclear and bad Nuclear, when both use the same process, and in most cases the same materials.
Again, you may think I’m drawing a long bow here, and seeking to in some way act as an apologist for the Nuclear Industry, but nothing could be further from the truth. I have no links whatsoever to it, and I only speak as someone from 25 years background in the electrical trade.
The problem stems from that one word most closely associated with the word Nuclear, and that is radiation.
Look closely at this chart, and see how just how much radiation you are subject to in your everyday life.
Background radiation levels. Click on the image to open in a new and larger window.
Ah! Don’t you just love those San Francisco values.
Dear Madame Speaker:
It has come to my attention that you may be overlooking a real treasure in your own backyard; a woman who is perfectly fit to become your majordomo Chief Advisor of Staff on All Matters Worldwide.
I refer, of course, to the brilliant young lady who gave her testimony to the Santa Cruz City Council on May 13 of this year (click on attached video, or get one of your staffers to show you how). The truth is, had she been about 60 years older, I would have sworn it was you; I really would have. That’s how closely she echoed the rather unique sentiments you have so vociferously voiced since leaving your job as a pizza parlor waitress in Baltimore’s Little Italy and migrating to San Francisco at the turn of the last century.
Here are just a few of her nuggets — nuggets, I might add, that I think I have heard you utter on more than one occasion: Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama’s Science Czar, John P. Holdren,has already been embroiled in much controversy for being a co-author of a book which advocates enforced population controls like forced sterilization. Since his appointment he said that he has never endorsed forced sterilization.
That is not the only radical theory of the President’s science guy. Holdren is a globalist who endorses surrender of US sovereignty” to a comprehensive Planetary Regime that would control all the world’s resources, direct global redistribution of wealth, oversee the “de-development” of the West, control a World Army and taxation regime, and enforce world population limits.
He has castigated the United States as “the meanest of wealthy countries,” advocated drastically lowering the U.S. standard of living, and left the door open to trying global warming “deniers” for crimes against humanity (uh-oh, guess I’m in trouble). In short, he will blend in well with the rest of the President’s team:
“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States,” Holdren wrote in a 1973 book he co-authored with Paul R. Ehrlch and Anne H. Ehrlich. “De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation.”
In the vision expressed by Holdren and his co-authors, the Ehrlichs, the need for “de-development” of the United States demanded a redistribtuion of wealth. Read the rest of this entry »
The ABC mentioned here is Australia’s ABC. It might seem that ‘history’ is being selectively rewritten.
Karon Snowdon, reporting for the ABC’s Rear Vision, presents a potted history of China:
Influenced by the Soviet model, collectivisation and social reforms followed. While Mao’s Great Leap Forward was meant to catapult China into the big league of heavy industry, it had mixed results.
“Mixed results”? Is that the ABC’s shorthand for the brutal imposition of the mad whims of a Communist psychopath which lead to the deaths of millions? Jasper Becker’s book on this obscentity puts it rather better:
In 1984 American demographers uncovered evidence that at least 30 million people had starved to death in China between 1958 and 1962…. Based on hundreds of interviews and unpublished documents, (Becker’s book) describes how Mao Zedong created a man-made famine throughout China. Mao’s Great Leap Forward was the greatest example of Utopian engineering ever attempted. Instead, even in the richest regions, peasants died in their millions while the rest became gaunt skeletons. Through graphic eyewitness accounts, the author describes a catalogue of terror, cannibalism, slavery, torture and imprisonment that took place on a massive scale during the great famine in which 10 million people were arrested and sent to death camps while a further 10 million fled their homes. He goes on to explain how the darkest secret of Mao’s rule was kept hidden and why evidence of what happened was disbelieved for so long.
More people died in this catastrophe than in the Second World War or in the concentration camps of Hitler or Stalin.
Here’s how that suffering looks when translated into bland statistics:
Would the ABC also declare that Adolf Hitler’s leadership in Germany had merely “mixed results”?
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
“Fear is the foundation of most governments.” –John Adams
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
“President Obama is pushing Congress to pass health care legislation that could nationalize as much as 10 percent of the economy. Most members of Congress will vote on this bill with no idea what’s in it. Rep. John Conyers Jr., Michigan Democrat, disparaged lawmakers for even pretending to read the laws they pass. ‘I love these members, they get up and say, “Read the bill,”‘ he said last week at the National Press Club. ‘What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you’ve read the bill?’ Mr. Conyers might think it’s an antiquated notion that congressmen actually read legislation, but it is the most fundamental responsibility of elected representatives to know and understand laws and how they will affect the lives of their constituents. That is especially the case with such a gargantuan bill. The House version creates 53 new federal bureaucracies with everything from a Health Choices Administration to a Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund to a Health Benefits Advisory Committee. (The Washington Times – cont’d) Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday, we received a comment on one of our articles about Barack Obama’s Civilian Defense Force, or as we here at the Freedom Medium call it, Obama’s Army.
The writer took issue with the fact that we speculated that perhaps this force would be used to carry out tasks that the military refused to do because perhaps the orders they would receive they would consider to be unconstitutional.
We had also provided a link at the end of the article to the White House website that outlined the requirements (at that time) of the program, and the person leaving the comment also stated that they found nothing on the White House website that made mention of this force being used to do anything that would be against the Constitution.
Six months into the Obama administration, it should now be clear to all Americans: Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles.
Ask the Congressional Budget Office. Last week, President Obama spilled the beans on the “Today Show” that he had met with CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf – just as the number crunchers were casting ruinous doubt on White House cost-saving claims. Yes, question the timing.
The CBO is supposed to be a neutral scorekeeper – not a water boy for the White House. But when the meeting failed to stop the CBO from issuing more analysis undercutting the health care savings claims, Obama’s budget director Peter Orszag played the heavy.
Orszag warned the CBO in a public letter that it risked feeding the perception that it was “exaggerating costs and underestimating savings.” Message: Leave the number fudging to the boss. Capiche?
Obama issued an even more explicit order to unleash the hounds on Blue Dog Democrats during his health care press conference. “Keep up the heat” translated into Organizing for America/Democratic National Committee attack ads on moderate Democrats who have revolted against Obamacare’s high costs and expansive government powers over medical decisions.
U.S. Electrical Power Consumption Chart for April 2009. Image from Energy Information Administration. Click on the image to open in a new and larger window.
In the earlier post, I included this same image, and here I want to show you why Nuclear Power needs to be considered in the mix of power generation, if we are to move away from coal fired power, and how this blind rush to use Wind power and the two versions of Solar power will never be able to supply the electrical power that is needed to actually keep America going.
This post will be somewhat technical by nature, but with each step I will give you an explanation, and also references as to how these calculations were reached.
The actual slice of the chart there that indicates other energy sources can be misleading, because from that you might think that renewable sources do make up a fairly sizable percentage when the overall consumption in KiloWattHours is so monumentally huge.
This link shows you that renewable power sector and the five generating methods that make up this sector. These are Wind, the two versions of Solar Power, (Solar Photovoltaic and Concentrating Solar, also referred to as Solar Thermal) Wood and Wood Derived Fuels, Geothermal, and Other Biomass. Two of those, the Wood and Biomass methods are classed as renewable, because, well, in a way they are, but both release large amounts of Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gas, and Biomass also releases large amounts of the more volatile Methane Greenhouse Gas as well. From this page you can readily see that Wind and Solar make up only part of the overall total, and in fact supply less than half the overall total, so relating it back to that slice on the pie chart, the actual power delivered from Wind and Solar amounts to only 1.9% of the overall total power consumed in the U.S.
Fraud and abuse in America’s healthcare system costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year – more than enough to pay for high quality private health insurance for every uninsured American. But for whatever reason, Congress ignores this massive pot of money, powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) in particular.
A new Zogby poll asked Americans what is their preferred way to pay for modernizing our healthcare system. Eighty-eight percent said “eliminate fraud” which was well ahead of the second place finisher, “standardize administrative forms” at 77 percent. “Reduce medical errors” was third at 72 percent.
Another new poll by Insider Advantage found 61 percent of respondents said Congress should address the issue of fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid before enacting a new government-run healthcare plan.
That same poll found 41 percent believe there is “significant” fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid with an additional 32 percent saying the problem is “somewhat significant.”
As Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee Waxman is a key leader in Congress on all matters health. When he led the Committee’s subcommittee on health from 1984-1994, Waxman was responsible for aggressive expansions of Medicaid which are now bankrupting states. Today, spending on Medicaid exceeds outlays on K-12 education in most states.
And even as Waxman has championed the massive expansion of government-run health care, he has repeatedly ignored efforts to pursue fraudulent activity in Medicaid – a program over which he has full jurisdiction.
One exception would be his obsession with making sure pharmaceutical innovators are compliant with the prices control regimes he created, even though prescription drugs are an optional benefit in Medicaid and amount to 10 percent of overall costs. Read the rest of this entry »
Editor’s Note: Mr. Alexander leaves for Alaska today, but provided this analysis in response to Obama’s accusations about police “acting stupidly” when they arrested his old friend, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” –Thomas Jefferson
Humility is below his pay grade
When a slick “community organizer” cons his way into the White House, you may be able to take him out of the hood, but you can’t get the hood out of him.
When Barack Hussein Obama interrupted a recent live media propaganda confab on his administration’s most critical national initiative (socializing health care) in order to accuse a local police officer of “acting stupidly,” he got more than my attention; he earned my disrespect — and that of most law enforcement offices and veteran officers across the nation.
I graduated from a state police academy at age 19 and worked as a uniformed patrolman for the next four years while completing my undergraduate degree. That was many years ago, but I can assure you that there is no such thing as a “former police officer.” You can take a trooper off patrol, but can’t get the patrol out of a former trooper.
On occasion when my kids and I watch the television program “Cops,” with its familiar theme song “Bad Boys” and cameras recording real patrol officers on pursuits and takedowns, they know that I am not so much watching the show as I am vicariously riding shotgun.
A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter’s desk at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those clocks there for?”
St. Peter answered, “Those are Lie Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move.”
“Oh,” said the man, “whose clock is that?”
“That’s Mother Teresa ’s. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.”
“Incredible,” said the man. “And whose clock is that one?”
St. Peter responded, “That’s George Washington’s clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Washington told only two lies in his entire life.”
“Where’s Barack Obama ’s clock?” asked the man.
“Obama’s clock is in Jesus’ office. He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”
Red October Looms for ObamaCare + More
Posted by papundits on 07/31/2009
The Patriot Post – Fri Digest – Vol. 09 No. 30
“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” –James Madison
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Red October Looms for ObamaCare
Americans can breathe a sigh of relief, however briefly, because Congress will not pass health care legislation before lawmakers depart for recess on August 7. “This bill, even in the best-case scenario, will not be signed — we won’t even vote on it probably until the end of September or the middle of October,” said President Barack Obama.
In a sense, Obama is admitting the unpopularity of the major proposals being bantered about in Congress. “This has been the most difficult test for me so far in public life,” he complained, “trying to describe in clear, simple terms how important it is that we reform this system. The case is so clear to me.” And the case is equally clear to us that Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are acting unconstitutionally. Look it up — health care ain’t there. Economist Walter E. Williams points to the Founders’ own words on the lack of constitutional authority for such actions, adding, “What we’re witnessing today is nothing less than a massive escalation in White House and congressional thuggery.”
Read the rest of this entry »
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